The way I work

I believe that effective psychotherapy strengthens a developing ability to trust and express evolving personal truths more fully and compassionately. We learn in therapy to gather our awareness and acknowledge our feelings. We become more comfortable listening to our intuition and expressing ourselves in new and surprising ways in this moment, the only moment we can control.

I believe that the competing demands of modern life, with all of their contradictory pushes and pulls, often contribute to painful confusion and disconnection. I strive to offer a safe, creative space to consider and recalibrate your relationship to the internal and external beliefs and influences that shape your experience in the world. I maintain a deep reverence for the unique path that each of us has taken in exploring, getting lost, and setting and achieving goals in this precious and precarious life.

I employ an eclectic therapeutic approach grounded in relational psychodynamic theory which posits that 1) there is much occurring beneath the surface of our lives that can rise to conscious awareness and 2) that trauma occurs in relationships and can heal, with care and attention, in conscious relationships.

I am presently engaged in a training program to gain applied experience in polyvagal-theory and somatic approaches to nervous system regulation. These approaches are complementary to any healing modality and inform my work in implicit and explicit ways, such as the way I show up in our work and suggested practices or assignments in and out of session.